Obama Supports UN Investigation of Israel

The Obama administration has decided to support a UN investigation into Israel’s boarding by IDF officers of the terrorist-ponsored “flotilla.” An Obama official reportedly said, “We are open to different ways of ensuring the credibility of this Israeli-led investigation, including international participation, and have been in intensive talks with our Israeli partners in the past few days on how to move forward…We know of no resolution that will be debated at the UN on the flotilla investigation next week.”

This refusal to rule out an international investigation breaks with decades of precedent in US-Israel relations. So far, the planned investigation will only investigate Israel’s actions on the ship, and will not investigate the actions of the United States’ belligerent NATO ally, Turkey, or the “activists’” connections with terrorist organizations. Additionally, the administration is ignoring the precedent that such an investigation may set in laying the groundwork for possible future investigations of U.S. military personnel.